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Contributed by: Kathy Loidolt on 3/18/2008

Today's Healthy Hint of the Week is easy and free. Just breathe deep. Deep breathing increases the oxygen to your internal organs, which keeps them working at their best. We all know it helps us relax and reduce stress, but experts believe it also helps us lose weight, ease PMS and menopause symptoms and increase athletic performance. When I am having trouble falling asleep, if I take three very deep breaths, I usually go to sleep shortly thereafter.

As spring approaches and the weather warms up,you mightopen yourcar windows at stop lights (so your deep breaths are drawing "clean" air) and take three deep breaths. First breathe out as you count to five or ten, push out all the air you can, then breathe in slowly through your nose to the count of five or ten. Repeat thisthree or more times, you will be helpingyour lymph system get rid of body waste, increasing the capacity of your internal organs and boosting your immune system. I have found that if I start to feel a cold come on and Ibreathe deep many times during the day, that expected cold doesn't show up.

Dr. Gail Warner advises her patients to go a step further to increasing lung capacity by: standing withyour back against a wall, push your heels, rear, shoulders, head and arms against the wall if you can. Now try to push your lower back flat against the wall and maintain that position for one minute. It opens up your lungs, may increase your athletic performance and will help prevent the hunched-over-old-lady-look we all dread as we age.

So, relax and breathe deep this week! You are going to love it!
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Please join us as we enjoy free organic food samples and discuss ways to save time and money while learning to eat and live healthy. I will be speaking this Thursday, March 20 (not the 29th!). from 6:00-7:30pm at Colorado Health and Wellness, 1231 Lake Plaza Drive. Call 576-2225 for directions. We will be giving away free books and a gift card to Sammy's Organics.
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This Healthy Hint of the Week has been brought to you by Kathy Loidolt, author of Shopper's Guide to Healthy Living, available at www.amazon.com.
It is not intended to diagnose ,treat or cure disease.
"Permissionto use or excerptwith proper attribution."
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Kathy Loidolt
(719) 641-2977 C
Monument, CO 80132
kloidolt@hotmail.com

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